Tabitha & Warren | New Year's - backdated

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Tabitha and Warren discuss the next item on her "Bucket List."



Tabitha chewed the tip of her pen as she stared at her list, written out on old, crumpled paper. Very few things had been crossed off. "Skydiving would be rather pointless for you, but what about BASE jumping?" She asked Warren, his presence warm behind her perch on the couch.

"I don't know, what's the difference?" Warren was in full-on lazy mode, stretched out on the couch and his wings drooping over the sides.

"Instead of jumping out over empty sky, you skim down the side of a mountain, or building or something else equally insane," she explained. "Some dont think that's enough and add one of those flying squirrel suits to the mix."

"Still kind of pointless," Warren pointed out. "What with my ability to just... fly down the side." He tilted his head, looking thoughtful. "But that could be sort of fun. Careening down close against a mountain side. Maybe."

She twisted to grin at him, grinding her back teeth through the pain in her ribs and careful not to let the smile slip. "Come on, how long do you think you could hold out before you opened up those beautiful wings?" she teased.

Warren smirked at her, nudging her slightly before he responded.

"Okay, point. Maybe I should take you flying myself. That'd be far more fun than anything on your list, I'm pretty sure."


It was all she could do not to launch herself at him in glee. "As amazing as that would be, it fails to knock anything new off the to-do list." Luckily, this was just the public list. The other one, the one that involved her newly discovered hormones and participating in a bar fight in every major city on the Eastern Seaboard was still in the notebook the page was ripped from.

"But flying with me is better than skydiving," Warren pointed out. "I could even pretend to drop you if you want that sort of thrill." He grinned cheekily at her.


"You know I think flying with you is the best thing EVER, but how am I supposed to compare, eh?" She crossed her arms in a challenge. "Come on, you don't think you'd enjoy the thrill? Knowing you held out, defied gravity in one more way?"

"You could ask Jean-Paul to take you flying," he replied with a smirk. "And I defy gravity every day. It's not as big a thrill for me." He pushed himself up slightly, leaning over to grab at her lists. "Let me take a look at your other to-do items."

Tabitha failed to pull it out of his reach. Instead she flopped back down on the couch and pouted at him. As expected, skydiving and BASE jumping were both there. As was white water rafting, learning to belly dance, get a tattoo, get a piercing, canoe through the Amazon, and a couple similar things.

It could be worse, he could be looking at the fantasy to-do list that just had names on it.

"Canoeing through the Amazon sounds like fun," Warren replied, reading over the list. "Though I think that is another one I might leave to you. Knowing my luck, I'd end up developing wing rot or something like that." All that water, all that humidity.

She looked completely horrified at the idea. "That would be an EPIC disaster. Soooo, saving the Amazon for another time. "I could always

try to learn salsa?" She mentally skipped over where she'd crossed out "Closure," moving on to the next one in her memory. "Or see the

Northern Lights," that one caught her interest a little more than the others.

"Now that one is easily doable," Warren said with a smile. "And something I've never done either," he mused. "I've heard they're amazing."

Tabs turned her head to look at him, starting to feel slightly giddy from all the blood rushing to her head. "So where? Or do we throw a dart at a spinning globe?"

"I'll look into it. Find the best place to see them from, and what time of year. And then find us both a free weekend." Warren grinned. "If such a thing exists."


She laughed. "That is the trick, right?" She nodded, almost to herself. "So it's settled? Should we go socialize, you did call this a party, right?"

"Something like that," Warren said with a lazy smile, pushing himself up from the couch and offering Tabs his hand. "Hopefully I can get you into that bikini of yours and into the hot tub at some point." He winked playfully.